(re)clamation is an intervention in the current conversation around theater history. This podcast from CLASSIX and Theatre for a New Audience recenters and uplifts the Black writers and storytellers of the American theater - both the celebrated and the forgotten. Each act of the podcast will explore a different era or theme in Black theater history through interviews, conversations, and excerpts of first-hand accounts.
Hosted by Brittany Bradford
Produced by CLASSIX and Theatre for a New Audience
Conceived and Written by CLASSIX (Brittany Bradford, A.J. Muhammad, Dominique Rider, Arminda Thomas, Awoye Timpo)
https://www.theclassix.org
Episode 6: Epilogue
In this episode we gather reflections from artists and scholars on Childress’s enduring legacy.
Guests: Soyica Colbert, Donnetta Lavinia Grays, friends of CLASSIX
13 Feb 2023
Act 2 Episode Five: Directing Childress
pisode 5: Directing Childress
A group of directors (and uber-Childress fans!) gather to chat about their experiences directing her works..
Moderated by Arminda Thomas
Guests: Jade King Carroll, Dominique Rider, Awoye Timpo, Nicole Watson
6 Feb 2023
Act 2 Episode Four: Making Wedding Band
Episode 4: Making Wedding Band
This week we take a deep dive into the 2022 production of Childress’s Wedding Band at Theatre for a New Audience, marking the first professional production of the play in New York since 1972. Members of the cast and creative team join Dominique for a conversation about bringing this masterpiece to life.
Guests: Jason Ardizzone-West, Brittany Bradford, Arminda Thomas, Awoye Timpo, Elizabeth Van Dyke
30 Jan 2023
Act 2 Episode Three: The Political Life of Alice Childress
Dominique speaks with Professor Mary Helen Washington, author of The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s, and numerous other works.
Guest: Mary Helen Washington
23 Jan 2023
Act 2 Episode Two: A Conversation with Kathy Perkins
This week Dominique and Arminda are joined by legendary lighting designer and historian Kathy A. Perkins about her collaboration with Alice Childress and how she came to edit the anthology of Childress’s plays.
Guest: Kathy A. Perkins
16 Jan 2023
Act 2 Episode One: In Search of Alice Childress
Host Dominique Rider connects with dramaturg and CLASSIX team member Arminda Thomas to talk through the biography and legacy of Alice Childress.
Guest: Arminda Thomas
9 Jan 2023
Act 2 Trailer
Playwright, performer, novelist, and cultural critic, Alice Childress looms as an incredibly important but often forgotten figure within the history of our American theater. The breadth of her writing intersects with major movements of Black artistic and political thought, and yet, until recently her work has been relegated to the shadows. For Act 2 of (re)clamation, CLASSIX shines a light on the life, work and legacy of Alice Childress.
15 Aug 2022
Episode 6: Epilogue
A glimpse into the resources and research that shaped Act 1.
8 Aug 2022
Episode Five: In Search of In Dahomey
In this episode, the full CLASSIX team gets together for a deep-dive exploration into the 1903 Broadway musical In Dahomey.
Featuring: Brittany Bradford, A.J. Muhammad, Dominique Rider, Arminda Thomas, Awoye Timpo
Featuring the voices of: Steven Anthony Jones, Kareem Lucas
1 Aug 2022
Episode Four: The End of the Beginning (1910-1922)
What falls apart, what shifts, and what remains? A conversation about the legacy of the minstrelsy era.
Hosted by Brittany Bradford
Produced by CLASSIX and Theatre for a New Audience
Guests include: Michael Dinwiddie, Rhiannon Giddens and Ayanna Thompson
Featuring: Galen Kane, Korey Jackson, Motell Foster, Steven Anthony Jones, Toussaint JeanLouis
25 Jul 2022
Episode Three: Black Musical Beginnings (1894-1909)
A journey with Bob Cole, J. Rosamond Johnson, Bert Williams and George Walker - visionaries of song and performance, and creators of Black musical theater.
Hosted by Brittany Bradford
Produced by CLASSIX and Theatre for a New Audience
Conceived and Written by CLASSIX
Guests include: Michael Dinwiddie and Rhiannon Giddens
Featuring: Lee Aaron Rosen, Keith Randolph Smith, Motell Foster, Korey Jackson, Galen Kane, Steven Anthony Jones, Toussaint JeanLouis, Lynette Freeman
18 Jul 2022
Episode Two: The Alt-Minstrelsy Scene (1871-1891)
Episode Two: The Alt-Minstrelsy Scene (1871-1891) by CLASSIX
11 Jul 2022
Episode One: The Georgia Minstrels (1864-1878)
An exploration of one of the first successful Black minstrel troupes and of the careers it launched, particularly that of its legendary leader, Charles B. Hicks.
Hosted by Brittany Bradford
Produced by CLASSIX and Theatre for a New Audience
Guests include: Rhiannon Giddens
Featuring: Lynnette Freeman, Anthony Fusco, Toussaint JeanLouis, Lee Aaron Rosen
5 Jul 2022
Trailer
(re)clamation is an intervention in the current conversation around theater history. This podcast from CLASSIX and Theatre for a New Audience recenters and uplifts the Black writers and storytellers of the American theater - both the celebrated and the forgotten. Each act of the podcast will explore a different era or theme in Black theater history through interviews, conversations, and excerpts of first-hand accounts.
Hosted by Brittany Bradford
Produced by CLASSIX and Theatre for a New Audience
Conceived and Written by CLASSIX (Brittany Bradford, A.J. Muhammad, Dominique Rider, Arminda Thomas, Awoye Timpo)
27 Jun 2022
Teaser
(re)clamation is an intervention in the current conversation around theater history. This podcast from CLASSIX and Theatre for a New Audience recenters and uplifts the Black writers and storytellers of the American theater - both the celebrated and the forgotten. Each act of the podcast will explore a different era or theme in Black theater history through interviews, conversations, and excerpts of first-hand accounts.
Join us starting July 11 for a 6-week exploration of Black Performance in the Era of Minstrelsy.
Hosted by Brittany Bradford
Produced by CLASSIX and Theatre for a New Audience
Conceived and Written by CLASSIX (Brittany Bradford, A.J. Muhammad, Dominique Rider, Arminda Thomas, Awoye Timpo)
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